Day of the Sirens

Day of the Sirens is a bad film. End of story. It may have the odd good thing in it, but it is a bad film. Saeed Jaffrey hammed beyond all belief, Rik Mayall blatantly couldn't give a toss and everyone else fell between panto and wooden. The plot is pathetic and badly writte, the dialogue is appalling, the camera work shaky at best, the sets and locations are terribly, continuity non-existent, the Spanish sub-plot irritating and pointless and the special effects were surely the result of a technician having a laugh. The production values are as low as you can get and one or two glaring inconsistencies in the plot and casting really do need to be pointed out to the director/writer. 1. Jewish boys are rarely named Christian. 2. They rarely have Irish Catholic mothers. 3. Elderly Asian gentlemen with strong accents are rarely called Albert Page. 4. Radio Juan is not funny. 5. Ripping off 'Seven' is not clever. Don't watch this film unless you're drunk and have a skip facility on your DVD player.

First you have this "a-sin" with this movie and another one called Kiss Kiss Bang Bang in their review list, then you have this "captain_curthers" with this one and another called Little England.. and surprise surprise..They're all movies from the same company: Boudicca! Then you have a bunch of people with a single review in their list submitting the same review twice here. This is so stupid. If you want to promote your little movies, there's tons of other ways to do it than faking reviews in IMDB. By the way..The Movie is OK. Average. Nothing more. No big deal and definitely not an 8.7 movie, but that's just me being stupid...

Stop Over Selling This Movie - PLEEEEEEASE. Rik's best performance yet!!!! Yes its good but not worth writting home for. His bully boy tactics in Bottom entailed more feeling and talent. Plus The Script Was Better!

The film is OK but, the one liners said in a very cheesy way make you wanna fast forward. The Guns Could Have Been Made To Look A Little Less Plasticy And The Whole Film Should Have Been Based Around And Even Called - "The Day Of Mr Albert Page" - because his storyline was the only heart felt one of the lot.

Worth a watch but be prepared for medioca acting, bad props and a few laughable moments when its not ment to be. Per Example The Doggy Doo Gun!!!! Again PLEEEEEEASE.

But all said - Well Done For The Ending!!!

This film is pure rubbish. It was very obviously cheaply made with many cardboard characters. An exception to this is the Spanish couple. Sayeed Jaffrey's acting was also good but I wanted to shake him every time I saw him. He was so wimpish. The ending seemed to me to be 'make up time' in order to make it into a full length film. The film was also inconclusive and should have finished as soon as the killer was caught - not go meandering on inventing more killers and killings. Also London would not have come to a stop in this sort of event - let alone with people blocking all the routes out of the city. The film also jumped scenes too much. Very disappointing!

I've seen many comments on this movie(recently seen on IMDb)that range from "best movie ever" to brutal slating, that it's boring, pointless, etc. Well, I find that the film is between both of these extremes. It does a good job of conveying the turmoil of a city under threat of a terrorist attack, that is very realistic, spot on (like Mike Leigh does action, a bit weird but very interesting), I really liked the action sequences which for a low budget movie were quite remarkable in their scale and content. The character tie-ins work very well, and do a good job of keeping things moving. Problem is, that I ended up not caring much about all of them, with the exception of the Saeed Jaffrey, the Spanish girl was a shock but I never felt like I knew or cared about her, Mayall was interesting but his character was only beginning to open up when his performance was suddenly over. Theakston does a good job on the cinematography in his DOP debut but in the final analysis, this could've been better if Brady would've reigned in his overindulgent script, had better dialogue, focused on less characters and fleshed out the remaining ones better, eschewed the Lisa Shaw character (at least the Police Commander that seems stuck to spot) and had an ending that made sense. Themes such as dispossession and terrorism have been handled better by more accomplished directors. So, I give it 6/10 - not terrible, but not a great film that I could recommend, given a sensible budget though I guess it could of been much better, but trying to create a film of this scale on a micro budget was always doomed to failure.